Fabrice Murgia / Cie Artara Dominique Pauwels / LOD muziektheater
| Script and staging: | Fabrice Murgia |
| Musical score and sound installation: | Dominique Pauwels |
| Performed by: | Viviane De Muynck |
| Singer: | Lore Binon |
| Cello quartet: | Conjunto Aton' & Armide |
“Fabrice Murgia’s Ghost Road is a successful road movie full of nostalgia and dreams”.La Libre Belgique
Pinochet turned Chacabuco, a Chilean mining town where workers lived with their families, into a concentration camp for opponents of the dictatorship after the military coup. Today, all that remains is a ghost town in the middle of the Atacama Desert.
During a tour of the region, Fabrice Murgia met Juan Fuentes Botto, a former political prisoner, who told him about his experiences from that time in great detail. Combining drama, stories jotted down in his travel journal, music and video, Murgia aims to translate Juan's words, intertwined with Neruda's poems and the voice of Violeta Parra, to the stage, guiding the audience through a poetic trip to the past and the experiences that still remain in the shadows today.
Children of Nowhere is the second part of a project that launched in 2012 with Ghost Road, a disturbing musical theatre production that was on the Festival de Otoño a Primavera programme in 2013, which Murgia based on trips through ghost towns; trips of learning, of exodus, of searching, which, like this one to Chacabuco, serve as an excuse to tell the stories of all those forgotten people that we leave behind. In the words of the Belgian director, “I dream of a series of Ghost Roads, with men and women from different cultures and backgrounds in places abandoned by humanity."
Children of Nowhere (Ghost Road 2) premiered in January 2015 at the Festival Santiago a Mil in Chile. In Spain, before its premiere at the Teatro de La Abadía in Madrid as part of the XXXIV Festival de Otoño a Primavera, the play was included in Girona’s Festival Temporada Alta programme in October 2016.
| Script and staging: | Fabrice Murgia |
| Musical score and sound installation: | Dominique Pauwels |
| Performed by: | Viviane De Muynck |
| Singer: | Lore Binon |
| Cello quartet: | Conjunto Aton' & Armide |
| Staging assistant and translator: | Rocío Troc |
| Assistant: | Hubert Amiel |
| Image design: | Jean-François Ravagnan |
| Video design: | Giacinto Caponio and Jean-François Ravagnan |
| Lighting design: | Enrico Bagnoli |
| Costume design: | Marie-Hélène Balau |
| Research: | Vincent Hennebicq and Virginie Demilier |
| Supported by: | Daniel Cordova |
| General and stage supervisor: | Matthieu Kaempfer |
| Sound technician: | Marc Combas |
| Video technician: | Dimitri Petrovic |
| Lighting technician: | Kurt Bethuyne |
| A production by: | Cie Artara & LOD muziektheater |
| In collaboration with: | Théâtre du Manège in Mons, Mons 2015 Foundation– European Capital of Culture, Théâtre National in Brussels, Théâtre de Namur, Maillon Strasbourg, Festival Perspectives – Saarbrücken and Théâtre Jean-Vilar in Vitry-sur-Seine. |
The Cie Artara receives the support of Eubelius. |
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| Fabrice Murgia became director of the Théâtre National in Brussels in July 2016. | |